Last week, Google announced that later this year they will be launching a new real-time communication platform called Google Wave (see image below). After researching all day, I am going to attempt to answer the question that people all around the world are wondering, “What is Google Wave?”

According to Google:

A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.

A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.

To sum this up, Google Wave is going to be a communication platform that will combine many of the attributes of email, social networking, instant messaging, and web chat all in one.

According to Mashable.com, Google Wave has a lot of innovative features, but here are just a few:

- Real-time: In most instances, you can see what someone else is typing, character-by-character.

- Embeddability: Waves can be embedded on any blog or website.

- Applications and Extensions: Just like a Facebook application or an iGoogle gadget, developers can build their own apps within waves. They can be anything from bots to complex real-time games.

- Wiki functionality: Anything written within a Google Wave can be edited by anyone else, because all conversations within the platform are shared. Thus, you can correct information, append information, or add your own commentary within a developing conversation.

- Open source: The Google Wave code will be open source, to foster innovation and adoption amongst developers.

- Playback: You can playback any part of the wave to see what was said.

- Natural language: Google Wave can autocorrect your spelling, even going as far as knowing the difference between similar words, like “been” and “bean.” It can also auto-translate on-the-fly.

- Drag-and-drop file sharing: No attachments; just drag your file and drop it inside Google Wave and everyone will have access.

As you can see, what Google is cooking up here is going to cause a wave of traffic blowing down its doors once this Google Wave goes live.  It is being analyzed, picked apart, and criticized by all of the biggest names on the world wide web, and we all know that we cannot wai to get our grubby little fingers on it.  Of course we will never know until it happens, but some experts are saying that Google Wave is going to put a hurt on Twitter.  I really doubt that Twitter is going to be knocked out, but it might be nice to see all of the spammers and affiliate links slowly start fading from Twitter.  Who knows, this might even help Twitter.

Well, I hope that you find this information useful.  I have a lot of ideas running through my head right now, so if you have any questions about anything to do with Google Wave, feel free to leave me a message.  If you have any more info about Google Wave, please share with us.  This might lead to a great opportunity for Internet Marketers.

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Chris Jensen

Google Wave is a new model for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year. Here's a preview of just some of the aspects of this new tool.

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